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Deepest depths from the explorer?

M

Mojave

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I am about 90% certain I will be purchasing the explorer soon. Just a few quick questions: what's the deepest target you've reached with your explorer? Is the machine good in highly mineralized conditions such as the southern california desert?

Opinions welcomed. Thanks
 
10" to 11" in east texas on coins.
12" to 14" on old larger pull tabs and wire about 4" long and 45 degree rusted nails all of these were very deep.
I have iron ore hills and nice black dirt on the sides and sand in the low lands a real mixture.
hope this helps.

p.s. with the factory coil.
 
I was very lucky to find a Cost Co. medium size tape measure at 12 inches with the stock coil. It was rusted beyond repair. Lots of clay around here. Like Joe said, whats the size of the target? Wet ground helps to.

Jimb
 
I have a quarter burried at a measured 12" in my yard and my explorer SE with the stock coil will pick it up. The id will bounce alittle but does go to the top right in smartfind, "definent dig signal" The quarter has been burried for a year now.
 
I've got around 60 hours with the SE, so I'm not quite an expert. But I think you can routinely expect, with the right set-up and some experience, pennies/dimes at 6-8 inches, and quarters at 9-11. At this depth the signal will not be as strong as, say, at 5 inches. But there will be little doubt that you MUST dig!
For certain sites, 'deep' is a more relative term. But the SE will go deeper than most previous machines used there. For instance - last week I got a Barber quarter at 6 inches in a heavily detected park. The soil there is clay-ish and has a lot of iron in it, and near the quarter were some buried electrical cables. MANY other detectorists (including me) and machines missed the quarter. For that spot, 6 inches can be considered deep.
 
Hi Mojave,

Beer cans down a meter in dry sand and Australian Copper Pennys at around 19 inches, keeping in mind that copper coins developer a copper halo after they have been in the ground a while, living in Oz I have no knowledge of the Californian Desert.

Regards....Boony
 
http://metaldetectingworld.com/index.shtml Check out this site for ideas and setting for depth.
 
Hi Mojave

Here is a report from a well known THer

http://minelabowners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14560

Rick
 
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